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Fans of crime fiction will enjoy 'The Drop'
Harry Bosch tackles two tough cases in "The Drop," another stellar effort from author Michael Connelly.
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Story, reader are perfectly pitched
Every once in awhile an audiobook comes along that is so perfect that reading it as a book alone seems woefully inadequate.
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Bestsellers List
The latest bestsellers of fiction, nonfiction and paperback
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'Micro' is thriller about science gone wrong
"Micro" is a new, posthumous story from Michael Crichton, who died in 2008, and finished by Richard Preston, author of "The Hot Zone."
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Reporter turns to the business of novels
Novelist Rose Senehi's career path seems to have come full circle: from business reporting to opening mall sites to writing novels, and she says the environmental themes in her novels are no coincidence.
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Review: Sue Grafton has another choice letter
"V Is for Vengeance," and it's also for very, very good.
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DeLillo details disconnection in new collection
Many of the tales in Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories are about missed connections or, more accurately, disconnections.
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Twin City brings 'Mitford' novels to life
Every reader of Jan Karon's popular Mitford series of novels most likely has a mental vision of that idyllic North Carolina town.
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Bestsellers List: Fiction
FICTION
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Review: Michael Jackson book thankfully focuses on the music
We get it already: Michael Jackson was kind of a weird dude.
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'The Limit' revisits a great auto racing rivalry
A testosterone-fueled nonfiction book about auto racing in its bloody golden age, "The Limit" provides the drama and nostalgia of "Seabiscuit" and the body count of "Gladiator."
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Novelist Ann Beattie imagines life of Pat Nixon
One of the most poignant parts of Ann Beattie's new work, "Mrs. Nixon," is a page at the beginning listing the nicknames of Thelma Catherine Ryan, who was born March 16, 1912. She wanted to be an actress, but her most enduring role was being married to the only U.S. president to resign from office.
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'Lunatics' fun, but lacks Dave Barry's typical wit
In his popular books and newspaper columns, Dave Barry displays such a zany wit that on the rare occasions he's being serious he has to specify, "I am not making this up."
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Review: Book examines why we fall prey to possession obsession
The sixth pair of black shoes. The kitchen device that peels a grape. The diet-breaking bag of chips on sale at the grocery store. We're all guilty of making purchases that we don't need.
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Bestsellers List: Fiction
FICTION
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Books do justice to subjects of civil rights, racism
Each year a federal holiday in January marks the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader.
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New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers List
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Sheriff takes on drug cartels in 'Territory'
Readers get a taste of the fear experienced when Mexican drug cartels threaten a small Texas border town and its sheriff in Tricia Fields' new mystery, "The Territory."
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'Breaking Point' is a thrill ride
A plane crash unveils a dangerous new weapon in "Breaking Point," Dana Haynes' second novel to feature investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, the agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigations.
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Author examines history of the Trail of Tears
Daniel Blake Smith reveals new insight into the events that led up to the forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation in "An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears."
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Review: Hedy's Folly, a most improbable inventor
It has always sounded like a joke in search of a punch line: Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr helped develop the technology that would make cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS possible.
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Bestsellers List: Fiction
FICTION
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Three histories, with varying degrees of success
History can be a difficult subject because the present so quickly becomes the past and the future is always just out of reach. On audio, history becomes a spoken medium, evoking the oldest of oral traditions in relaying the momentous occasions of a culture or a society.
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Review: Nerds, non-nerds will love Hardwick's book
There are nerds. And then there are Nerdists.
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Review: Unendurable English's tone a bit too harsh
Grammarian Robert Hartwell Fiske doesn't seem to have much tolerance for people who spell poorly and misuse idioms. But he saves his greatest contempt for the nation's dictionary editors.
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